MRNA profiling for vaginal fluid and menstrual blood identification

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 272-278

  Jakubowska, Joanna ^a   MacIejewska, Agnieszka ^b   Pawłowski, Ryszard ^b   Bielawski, Krzysztof Piotr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Forensic genetics; Lactobacillus sp.; Menstrual blood; mRNA profiling; Multiplex PCR; Vaginal fluid

Indexed keywords

BETA DEFENSIN 1; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; MESSENGER RNA; MUCIN 4; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S; STROMELYSIN 3;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS CRISPATUS; LACTOBACILLUS GASSERI; LACTOBACILLUS JOHNSONII; MALE; MENSTRUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINAL SECRETION;

BODY FLUIDS; ELECTROPHORESIS, CAPILLARY; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; MENSTRUATION; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; VAGINA;

EID: 84874699613     PISSN: 18724973     EISSN: 18780326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2012.11.005     Document Type: Article

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